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Two players do not need to have shared a court for their stories to be connected. Find the shortest chain of head-to-head meetings between them.
Shortest path found
Coco Gauff
reaches
Stephanie Bernadel
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →2 meetings20July 1, 2019 — January 20, 2020View Coco Gauff × Venus Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
2 meetings20July 23, 2001 — January 14, 2002View Venus Williams × Kristina Brandi →03 BridgeOpen career →Kristina Brandi
1 meeting10April 19, 2006View Kristina Brandi × Yamile Fors Guerra →04 BridgeOpen career →Yamile Fors Guerra
1 meeting10February 24, 1999View Yamile Fors Guerra × Jodi Saunders →05 BridgeOpen career →Jodi Saunders
1 meeting10February 23, 1999View Jodi Saunders × Stephanie Bernadel →06 DestinationOpen career →Stephanie Bernadel
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgePaula Umana
- BridgeYamile Cordova
- DestinationStephanie Bernadel
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- BridgeGlenny Cepeda
- BridgeYamile Cordova
- DestinationStephanie Bernadel
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeVenus Williams
- BridgeCatalina Castano
- BridgeYamile Fors Guerra
- BridgeJodi Saunders
- DestinationStephanie Bernadel
- OriginCoco Gauff
- BridgeSu Wei Hsieh
- BridgeRossana De Los Rios
- BridgePaula Umana
- BridgeYamile Cordova
- DestinationStephanie Bernadel
How we calculate it
A search from both sides of history.
The portal traverses the head-to-head graph from both careers at the same time and stops at the first proven minimum distance. When a period is selected, only matches inside that window create links; walkovers never create connections.
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